Do I have anyone in San Francisco who needs tickets to see Ecco Vandal tonight at the Rickshaw Shop? I have two available for FREE!

Huge news! @comixaction.com & @handsoffnyc.bsky.social are throwing a NO KINGS COMIC-CON on Thursday, 10/15 to kick off the NK VOTE EARLY campaign! Awesome comics & pop culture guests! FREE! ONLINE! You don't wanna miss it! RSVP now! I'll be there - see ya soon! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

No Kings Comic-Con · No Kings

It’s the biggest pop culture fest in this or any other galaxy — NO KINGS COMIC-CON! Join us live on Thursday, October 15th for an early kickoff to the NO KINGS: VOTE EARLY festivities! This free, vi...

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Jaime Hernandez @xaimeh.bsky.social

For New Yorkers who want to participate in #BannedBooksWeek, I'm hosting a romance read-in at Book Club Bar tomorrow night at 7:30! We're raising money for Authors Against Book Bans and will be raffling off some great romances.

Romance Read-In to Benefit Authors Against Book Bans

It's Banned Books Week - so we're calling on romance readers to support Authors Against Book Bans and fight back against censorship!

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There are some signals that just the two childhood doses of mumps vaccine are not enough to hit a high enough VE to prevent outbreaks in congregate living. It's smart to get an adult booster before college, and especially if there's an outbreak locally!

ABC 10News@abc10news.bsky.social · 22h ago

An outbreak of mumps among San Diego State's football team has now increased to 14 confirmed cases and one probable case, the university announced Wednesday.

Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque.

Feena van@feenavan2099.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

I feel like in literally any other context, if you gave 6 figures to a teenager with no assets, income, credit, or work history, when said teenager struggled to pay back those 6 figures, you'd be told "you made a shitty deal, eat the loss, sucks to suck" but school is the exception for some reason

I Scare You Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23h ago

It’s really fucked up we told generations of kids they had to take out personal loans in order to improve their lives as we cut funding to schools and when that turned out to be bullshit the general consensus has been “fuck those kids”

We were treated as stateless before we came to the US and the US was the first place to give us a state. We were Americans first and no amount of Christians giftwrapping a piece of land that was promised to the Palestinians is going to make that land have anything to do with our nationality.

Israel is not our “mother country” is the thing. Our families were in the US before the Israeli state existed and even among those who came later, we came from Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Iran, Uzbekistan, and more. We have absolutely no cultural ties to Israel.

elias isquith@eliasisquith.blog · 24h ago

i was talking about this the other night. a lot of american jews aren’t used to being blamed for the actions of the “mother country” and struggle to accept or realize that being blamed for the actions of the country associated with your ethnic bloc is a normal (nasty) part of the american experience

No banned book list is accurate if it doesn't feature a lot of work from trans authors, unfortunately. It's been a line of attack that's been effective, which is why I'm not tagging creators. some goodies: bookshop.org/p/books/vict... bookshop.org/p/books/sir-... bookshop.org/p/books/a-wo...

Victories Greater Than Death

Outsmart Your Enemies. Outrun the Galaxy.“Just please, remember what I told you. Run. Don’t stop running for anything.”Buckle up your seatbelt for Victories Greater Than Death, a thrilling YA sci-fi a...

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We all know that Telegraph Club gets banned, but @malindalo.bsky.social's debut ASH gets banned all the time, too for the crime of being gay: bookshop.org/p/books/ash-...

Ash

"This lyrically retold Cinderella tale is not just a beautifully updated fable, but an ode to the transformative power of love."--Cassandra Clare, bestselling author of The Mortal Instruments series T...

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PRETTY PERFECT KITTY-CORN by @shannonhale.bsky.social and LeUyen Pham got banned in TX for showing a unicorn's heinie, and also having a boy with eyelashes: bookshop.org/p/books/pret...

Pretty Perfect Kitty-Corn: A Picture Book

This positively delightful kitty and unicorn picture-book story celebrates the magic of friendship--and the beauty of imperfection. The magical, bestselling team of Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham put t...

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everyone is being shy, so I'm going to add a few to get us rolling that I know get banned, and I don't see on lists often enough: DAMSEL by @elanakarnold.bsky.social is banned from every public school in Utah and is also a masterpiece in feminist YA fiction: bookshop.org/p/books/dams...

Damsel

*A 2019 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book*A dark, twisted, unforgettable fairy tale from Elana K. Arnold, author of the National Book Award finalist What Girls Are Made OfThe rite has existed for as ...

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For example: My books The Mermaid The Witch and The Sea and Squad both get banned frequently. One is a high fantasy with a sapphic romance. Once is a SA revenge fantasy. bookshop.org/p/books/the-... bookshop.org/p/books/squa...

The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

In a world divided by colonialism and threaded with magic, a desperate orphan turned pirate and a rebellious imperial lady find a connection on the high seas.The pirate Florian, born Flora, has always...

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Here's the thing: most books that are banned don't make the lists that get circulated each #BannedBooksWeek. If you're a book creator and your book gets banned, please respond to this post with your book and its buy link on bookshop.org. That way we can support indies and banned books 💛

1,200 sexual assault cases were filed at Cornell from 2018 to 2024. Most of those found responsible received minor sanctions that allowed them to remain on campus, such as probation or training. Only 7 ended in expulsion or dismissal. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive

A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.

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Today’s the day! Book reading at Books Inc-Laurel Village in San Francisco, today Sunday 10-4 at 5 pm. I’ll be on conversation with poet Mai-Linh Hong! www.eventbrite.com/e/may-lee-ch...

MAY-LEE CHAI & MAI-LINH HONG: My Hungry Ghosts & Continental Drift

Local author and SFSU professor May-Lee Chai will be in conversation with fellow local author Mai-Linh Hong at Books Inc. Laurel Village

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THE POISON PALACE: unfolds the era of Alexander the Great's conquering rampage across Eurasia with a graceful, fiery verisimilitude both intimate & mythic...from the Indian subcontinent & stretching all the way to ancient Babylon--it resounds in time, & sings to the present with a singular voice.

Shreya Ila Anasuya - THE POISON PALACE@thresholdrose.bsky.social · last mo.

In the Secretum Secretorum, Alexander is said to have been targeted by vishkanyas, or mythical Indian poison maidens. THE POISON PALACE, my debut novel, takes that proposition seriously. To celebrate the arrival of both galleys, please give me a page number and I'll give you a quote.

I find the "if you don't use AI then you don't understand what it's doing" to be goofily anti-intellectual. I can understand what something is doing by reading about it. Also, these folks never seem to pick up on their own anthropomorphizing. "Self reflect/self correct". No, there's no self.

This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...

The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect

In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.

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Lemme just post another stellar quote: "Polarization is the country’s immune response to an unpopular, antidemocratic, and intentionally divisive faction grabbing for disproportionate power to the detriment of national success, reputation, and democratic self-government."

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

"In other words, the people who are the most 'polarized' in the U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who oppose racists and sexists."

🗣🗣🗣Polarization Is Not the Problem🗣🗣🗣

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 3d ago

Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

She's clearly been busy. 😂 A good reminder that not all imperfections are a sign that something is wrong.

just wanna re-up the part where I wrote that many immigrants in Maine have been sheltering in place since January for their own safety, with ICE still operating in the area. it is October.

Lex McMenamin (they/them)@lexmcmenamin.com · 4d ago

whether or not it stayed in the headlines, ICE's on-the-ground presence “shocked the whole system” (in one advocate's words), changing life for Maine communities. many immigrants have been effectively sheltering in place since Jan, relying on grocery drop-offs and volunteers to take kids to school.

I continue to believe that if people are going to share propaganda images in a spirit of "Can you believe this shit?" the least they could do is draw a big red X through them so that is the first thing the viewer sees.

Makary and all of his fringe allies who willingly and excitedly went to work for an anti-vax conspiracy theorist while he dismantled America’s public health ought to be drummed out of academia and professional life forever. You should not get to come back from that.

Until the medical and public health establishment comes to grips with the fact that the political right wants to destroy and discredit everything they stand for, we’ll never have accountability. Makary was pushing COVID bullshit for years before literally, happily going to work for RFK Jr.

Makary used his position atop FDA to stack the agency with cranks and spearheaded a misinformation-fueled campaign against mRNA vaccines. But he’s apparently been welcomed back into academia and professional life. Vinay Prasad too is back at his academic institution. And I know tenure. But still.